PAKISTAN COMMUTING DEATH SENTENCE AFTER 16 YEARS NOT APPROPRIATE: SC

08 May 2007 :

the Pakistan Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed an appeal stating it is not appropriate to commute a death sentence to life imprisonment after sixteen years.
The SC delivered this verdict on the appeal plea against the accused including Jan Khan, Shah Mir alias Shammo, Muhammad Shafi and Muhammad Amir in a triple murder case. The accused gunned down Muhammad Saeed, Muhammad Iqbal and Muzaffar Hussain in 1992 in a dispute over possession of a ‘dera’. Session Judge Sargodha had awarded death sentence on three counts to the accused. The high court had commuted the death sentence into life imprisonment in 2000.
 

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